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(No Model.)

A.P.TRASK.*

HARNESS.

No. 395,527. Patented Jan. 1,1889.

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PATENT UEEICE.

ONONDAGA, MICHIGAN.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,527, dated January1, 1889.

Application filed September 10, 1888. Serial No.- 285,039- (No model.)

To aZ'Z whom it may 0072007111:

Be it known that l, ALBERT F. 'luAsK, ot' Onondaga, in the county oflngham and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Harnesses, of which the following is a specification. 7 1

Myinvention relates to improvements in harnesses; and the object of myimprovement is to provide a harness which shall break a horse fromkicking and which shall raise and secure the hoof for shoeing. I attainthis ob ject in the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in whieh- Figure 1 shows the harness upon the horse. Fig. 2 is a detailview showing the connection of the tugs, crupper, and strap H to the padA. Figs. 3, 4t, and 5 are detail views of the pulley B and the checkwhich it contains.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

0 is a neck-strap. O 0 are straps passing around the fore legs neartheir junction with the body.

D is the breast-strap.

I I are tu which are secured to the breaststrap at one end and extendbackward and upward, and are secured at their other ends to a ring on apad, A, upon the top of the hip of the horse, near the root of the tail,as shown in Fig. 2.

H is a strap secured to the pad A and extending downward back of thehorse.

N is the crupper-strap, which is also secured to the pad A. r:

B is a pulley secured to the end of the strap H.

J' J are straps secured to the breast-strap near the end of the tugs,and provided at their lower ends with straps K, adapted to pass aroundthe fore leg just above the hoof and secure the hoof to the strap J.

H" is a rope passing-through the pulley B.

L is a strap secured to the rope H, and adapted to be secured around theleg oi the horse just above the hoof. The rope H should be abouteighteen or twenty feet long, and both ends of said rope may be securedto the strap L.

The pulley B is provided with a check consisting of the plugs F F,secured together by the swiveling link G, and limited in their motion bythe protruding ends of the rivet g, ex-

tending into a slot, 1, in the pulley-case, as l shown in Fig. Theinterior faces of the plugs F F are em-rugated and formed to embrace therope ll". The exterior faces are formed to tit the interior of the caseand the periphery of the sheave. One end of the plugs i F F is madesufficiently small to pass between the sheave and pulley oase when therope is between them. The other end of said plugs is made so large in aperpendicular direction that when the rope is between them they will notpass between the sheave and pulley-case. Said plugs gradually increasein thickness from the smaller to the larger end.

The operation of my improved harness is as follows: The strap L securedaround one of the hind legs just above the hoof. The hoof is then raisedto a convenient position by pulling upon the portion of the rope H"marked 71 hen said rope is released, it prevented from returning by theplugs F F, wedging between the sheave and pulleycase and thus grippingthe rope. The hoof may be drawn into a convenient position by takinghold of the portion of the rope 1-1 marked 72. It the horse will notallow the strap L to be seen red in position, one of the fore feet isfirst secured off the ground by one of the straps J J. For shoeing thefore foot the hoof is secured in a convenient position by one of thestraps J J.

R is a small'rope attached to the plugs F F, by pulling upon which therope H" is'released, allowing the hoof to fall.

Having fully described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

'l. The combination of a harness for a horse, a strap secured to saidharness near the eruppeer and depending therefrom, a pulley secured tosaid depending strap near its lower end, and a rope passing through saidpulley and provided with means for securing the hoof of the horse,substantially as shown and described.

The combination of a harness for a horse, a strap secured to saidharness near the erupper and depending therefrom, a pulley secured tothe lower portion of said depending strap and provided with apulley-cheek, and a rope passing through said pulley and provided withmeans for securing the hoof of the horse, substantially as shown anddescribed.

3. In aharness, the combination of the neckstrap C, the breast-strap D,straps 0, adapted to pass round the fore leg of a horse near thejunction with the body, straps J J, depending from the forward part ofthe harness and adapted to secure the fore feet of a horse, tugs I I,secured to the breast-strap and passing backward and upward and beingsecured together over the horses back, the crupper attached to saidtugs, the strap H, secured to said tugs on the back of the horse, apulley secured to said strap H, and a rope passing through said pulleyand provided with means for securing the horses hoof, substantially asshown and described.

4. In ah arness, the combination of the neckstrap 0, the breast-strap D,straps K, adapted to pass round the fore legs of the horse at theirjunction with the body, tugs l I, secured to the breast-strap andpassing backward and upward and being secured together over the horsesback, the crupper attached to said tugs, the strap H, secured to saidtugs on the back of the horse, a pulley secured to said strap H, and arope passing through said pulley and provided with means for securingthe horses hoof, substantially as shown and described.

5. In combination with a shoeing or breaking harness, a pulleyconsisting of the combination of the sheave, the pulley-case, and plugsF F, swiveled together by a link, G, said plugs

